Well, in his defense, during that reality show he was under "psychiatric treatment" consisting of some pretty evil drugs - nowadays when you see a celebrity acting zoned, it's likely to be the legal stuff that's wiping the windshield. I do agree with the point of view that we are basically meat puppets running on interlocking varieties of brain chemicals, however the pharmaceutical companies have somehow* managed to convince doctors that they already have the perfect trick for every situation - killing people, in the meantime. I thought it ludicrous that Prez. Bush was making fun of poor Ozzy's shuffling and mumbling, when he was himself a shining example of some pretty spectacular brain-tuning misfires. Remember the three debates in 2004 - when three entirely different personalities showed up? Not that comic, in light of the decisions in his hands. Hmmm, yes I have had family & friends in the wringer, oops. And when the Iraq vets with "PTSD" being treated with Seroquel* are committing suicide at 4 times the rate of those with less-lobotomizing treatments -
oops sorry to be a bummer!
ccasion14:
As far as Ozzy being out there, it's a shame - us boomers
really have a huge problem with getting old, and our "heroes" aren't allowed to either. There's a recent Rolling Stones clip with John Mayer sitting in that I'm
not going to find, they're trading solos - Mayer rips off a hummer - the boy really can play - Ron Wood plays the same solo that he's been playing in every song for 30+ years, then Keith Richards... well, I don't think he's played a solo since that Chuck Berry movie in 1985 or so. He had no clue what to do. But that's fine, I saw them in 1975 and I have no interest is screwing that up. And all the internet photo doctors who love to put up pictures of wrinkly old Mick and wrinkly old Steven Tyler and wrinkly old Rod - they've never seen any other 65 to 70-year-old people, apparently. Has Howard Stern looked in a friggin' MIRROR, lately?
*(Astra-Zeneca got fined
520 million dollars in 2010 for flat-out bribing doctors to prescribe Seroquel for whatever "off-label" uses they could invent - it's an anti-psychotic drug originally designed to pancake people in the midst of a loon, but apparently insomnia, anxiety and annoying your parents are just moderate forms of psychosis, cause Seroquel will fix 'em all! No telling if Ozzy's now too far gone to come back - he did try drinking again for a while, and it hits the retreads really hard sometimes.)
